Law & Order
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- Created on: 23-06-18 14:50
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- Mining camps
- Prostitution and alcohol often led to drunken fights
- 'Salting a claim'
- Scattering gold flakes and selling land to inexperienced miners
- Claim jumping
- Law & Order
- Failed or finished claims
- Thousands moved to San Fransisco for work
- Unemployment sparked a crime wave in 1851
- Rival gangs took control of whole areas
- Thousands moved to San Fransisco for work
- Mass migration
- Occured too quickly for official law systems to be introduced
- Attempts to tackle lawlessness
- Federal government
- US Marshals: oversee a state or territory
- Maintain law and order
- Capturing outlaws
- Running trials
- 3 Judges:
- Hear cases brought by US marshals
- US Marshals: oversee a state or territory
- Local government
- Town marshals
- Sheriffs
- Texas Rangers
- Non-government
- The Pinkerton Detective Agency
- Banks and railroad companies
- Protection
- Catch particular outlaws
- Banks and railroad companies
- Vigilantism
- Local communities
- Lynchings
- Violence
- Went unpunished
- Local communities
- The Pinkerton Detective Agency
- Limitations
- Geography
- Area too large for law enforcement to cover
- Law enforcement badly paid
- Hard to recruit
- Likely to accept bribes
- No legal training
- Untitled
- Geography
- Federal government
- Failed or finished claims
- Racial differences often led to violence
- Chinese prevented from working on new claims
- Anything made through hard work was robbed from them
- Chinese prevented from working on new claims
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